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little known Ferns of the United States, by the same writer ; who has also 

 issued a Systematic Fern-List of the species of this country. In the Bull. 

 Torr, Club are two i^apers by G. E. Davenport, on a new species, Notlio- 

 Icena Grayi, from Arizona, and on Vernation in Botrycliium horeale, and 

 a paper on Ferns of the Cumherland, by John Williamson. The occur- 

 rence of the rare Schiscea pusilla in Js"ova Scotia is recorded bj' Pro- 

 fessor Gray in the Bot. Gazette. In the same journal are notes by Pro- 

 fessor Gray and E. J. Loomis on an automatic movement of the frond 

 of As'plenium Trichomanes. 



Baker describes some new ferns, collected by Beccari in Sumatra, 

 and a collection from Madagascar by Laiigley Kitcbing in the Journal 

 of Botany, where the same writer has also published a >^yno2)sis of the 

 Species of Isoetes. In the Trans. Linn. Soc. is a Kevieic of the Ferns of 

 Northern India, by C. B. Clarke. 



In the department of mosses and hepatics there has appeared in tlie 

 United States a Catalogue of North American Mosses, by E. A. liau and 

 A. B. Hervey, and Bryological Notes and Criticisms, by C. F. Austin, in 

 the Bull. Torrey Club. An im])ortant work is Sphagnacew of Europe 

 and North America, by R. Braithwaite, and the British Moss-Flora, part 2, 

 includin.u' the Buxbaumiacece and Georgiacea', by the same author. The 

 Anuales des Sciences contain a paper by Beschcrelle, entitled Flornle 

 Bryologiqne de la Reunion, which also includes mosses from other neigh- 

 boring islands. Lindberg has published notes on Scaudinavian mosses 

 an<l C. IVIiiller a Prodromns Bryologiw Argentina', the last named 

 paper being a continuation in the licvue Biyologique. In Grevillea 

 and in the Trans, of Bot. Soc. of Edinburgh are notes on British Hepaticce 

 by Carriugton. The Jungermanniacece have been studied by Gottsche 

 who has i)ublished new observations on the Geocalycew and Stephani 

 has published a pajx'r on the Jungermanniacece of Germany with illus- 

 trations. 



Treating of Characea' we have to notice the appearan(;e of two num- 

 bers of tlie Characecc of America, by Dr. T. F. Allen, in which three 

 species of Nitella and three of Chara are described and figured. Dr. 

 Allen has also an article in the Bull. Torr. Club on the Similarity between 

 the Characecc of America and Asia in which he calls special attention to 

 Nitella imlyglochin A. Br. and Chara Hydropitys Reichenb. A Review of 

 the British Gharacece, by Henry and James Groves, is given in the 

 Journal of Botany. 



On the general development of the higher cryi>togams is to be men- 

 tioned Die Gefasshryptogamen by Sadebeck, in the Encyklopaedie der 

 Naturwissenschaften and Goebel's Fmhryologie der Archegoniaten in 

 Arbeiten Bot. Instituts in Wurzburg. Leitgeb has published several 

 important papers on Marchantiacece, especially with reference to their 

 intlorescence and stomata in the proceedings of the Vienna Academy. 

 Cramer has an illustrated paper on the Non-sexual increase of the Fern- 



